Search Results

Wild Wales

Read by Steve Gough


George Borrow


Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first pub…

The Amateur Emigrant

Read by Annise


Robert Louis Stevenson


In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland,…

The Innocents Abroad (version 2)

Read by bscottholmes


Mark Twain


Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book.

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Read by Expatriate


William Henry Davies


The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part…

Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Ca…

Read by David Wales


Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is the second of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park, and this book a…

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

Read by Sibella Denton


James Baikie


Written primarily for children, James Baikie's 'peep' at ancient Egypt is a really well done, historical account of the ways of that fascina…

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy

Read by Sibella Denton


Ida Laura Pfeiffer


Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn't travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and …

A Soldier Of The Legion;An Englishman's Adventures Under The French Flag in Alg…

Read by David Wales


George Manington


An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…

The Western United States

Read by Laura Caldwell


Harold W. Fairbanks


"In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected…

First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870

Read by Sue Anderson


Hazard Stevens


Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


W. E. B. Du Bois and National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It includes the following articles: The Geography of the Sout…

In Kent with Charles Dickens

Read by Ruth Golding


Thomas Frost


By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

An Inland Voyage

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Robert Louis Stevenson


As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first publi…

Highways and Byways in Sussex

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. V. Lucas


A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…

Jenseit des Tweed

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Theodor Fontane


Fontanes Bericht über seine Reise nach Schottland mit seinem Freund Bernhard von Lepel. In dem für Fontane charakteristischen Stil…

Afloat on the Ohio

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Vagabonding Down The Andes

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Harry A. Franck


Sometime in the latter half of 1911, Harry A. Franck jumped out of a box-car and crossed the Rio Grande, from Laredo. Thus began a journey, …

A Little Tour in France

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then ba…

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Anonymous


A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far fr…

A Journal from Japan

Read by Expatriate


Marie Stopes


Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >